List by drainage basin
All rivers in Alabama eventually flow into the Gulf of Mexico. This list arranges rivers into drainage basin, which are ordered by the location of the mouth of the main stem from east to west. Tributaries are ordered from mouth to source (subject to being within the borders of Alabama).
Gulf Coast (east)
drainage basins for the main rivers draining southeastern Alabama
Apalachicola River
Choctawhatchee River
Yellow River
Escambia (Conecuh) River
Perdido River
- Apalachicola River (FL)
- Chattahoochee River
- Cedar Creek
- Omusee Creek
- Abbie Creek
- Sandy Creek
- Cheneyhatchee Creek
- Barbour Creek
- Chewalla Creek
- Cowikee Creek
- North Fork Cowikee Creek
- Middle Fork Cowikee Creek
- South Fork Cowikee Creek
- North Fork Cowikee Creek
- Hatchechubbee Creek
- Uchee Creek
- Little Uchee Creek
- Wacoochee Creek
- Halawakee Creek
- Osanippa Creek
- Oseligee Creek
- Wehadkee Creek
- Hillabahatchee Creek
- Chattahoochee River
- Choctawhatchee River
- Holmes Creek
- Wrights Creek
- Pea River
- Flat Creek
- Eightmile Creek
- Whitewater Creek
- Flat Creek
- Double Bridges Creek
- Claybank Creek
- Little Choctawhatchee River
- West Fork Choctawhatchee River
- Judy Creek
- East Fork Choctawhatchee River
- Yellow River
- Shoal River (FL)
- Pond Creek
- Five Runs Creek
- Lightwood Knot Creek
- Shoal River (FL)
- Blackwater River (Pensacola Bay)
- Big Coldwater Creek
- Big Juniper Creek
- Sweetwater Creek
- Escambia River (FL)
- Conecuh River
- Big Escambia Creek
- Lindsey Creek
- Murder Creek
- Burnt Corn Creek
- Mayo Mill Creek
- Silas Creek
- Sepulga River
- Patsaliga Creek
- Conecuh River
- Perdido River
- Blackwater River (Perdido Bay)
- Styx River
- Cowpen Creek
- Hollinger Creek
- Soldier Creek
- Palmetto Creek
- Hammock Creek
- Wolf Creek
- Miflin Creek
- Sandy Creek
- Portage Creek
Mobile Bay
By far, the Mobile drainage basin is the largest in Alabama
Mobile drainage basin
Mobile–Alabama–Coosa rivers
Black Warrior drainage basin
- Bon Secour River
- Magnolia River
- Fish River
- Blakeley River
- Bay Minette Creek
- Apalachee River
- Conway Creek
- Mobile River-Tensaw River
- Spanish River
- Lower Crab Creek
- Raft River
- Oak Bayou
- Threemile Creek
- Chickasaw Creek
- Crab Creek
- Big Bayou Canot
- Bayou Sara
- Gunnison Creek
- Bayou Sara
- Big Lizard Creek
- Little Lizard Creek
- Middle River
- Cedar Creek
- Alabama River
- Majors Creek
- Limestone Creek (Alabama River tributary)
- Big Flat Creek
- Robinson Creek
- Cane Creek
- Bear Creek (Alabama River tributary)
- Pursley Creek
- Beaver Creek
- Goose Creek
- Turkey Creek
- Dixon Creek
- Pine Barren Creek
- Bear Creek (Pine Barren Creek tributary)
- Sturdivant Creek
- Chilatchee Creek
- Sand Creek
- Bogue Chitto Creek
- Bear Creek (Bogue Chitto Creek tributary)
- Chaney Creek
- Mud Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Mush Creek
- Cahaba River
- Oakmulgee Creek
- Schultz Creek
- Hill Creek
- Little Cahaba River (Bibb County, Alabama)
- Mahan Creek
- Shoal Creek
- Shades Creek
- Piney Woods Creek
- Buck Creek
- Patton Creek
- Little Cahaba River (Jefferson County, Alabama)
- Big Black Creek
- Soapstone Creek
- Mulberry Creek
- Little Mulberry Creek
- Benson Creek
- Old Town Creek
- Big Swamp Creek
- Rambo Branch
- Ivy Creek
- Swift Creek
- Tallawassee Creek
- Pintlala Creek
- Catoma Creek
- Autauga Creek
- Tallapoosa River
- Chubbehatchee Creek
- Line Creek (Alabama)
- Cubahatchee Creek
- Calebee Creek
- Uphapee Creek
- Hillabee Creek
- Enitachopco Creek
- Little Hillabee Creek
- Harbuck Creek
- Little Hillabee Creek
- Enitachopco Creek
- Emuckfaw Creek
- Chatahospee Creek
- High Pine Creek
- Cornhouse Creek
- Crooked Creek
- Wesobulga Creek
- Little Tallapoosa River
- Wedowee Creek
- Muscadine Creek
- Coosa River
- Mortar Creek
- Cottonford Creek
- Callaway Creek
- Weoka Creek
- Little Weoka Creek
- Chestnut Creek
- Hatchet Creek
- Weogufka Creek
- Swamp Creek
- Socapatoy Creek
- Walnut Creek
- Yellow Leaf Creek
- Paint Creek
- Waxahatchee Creek
- Buxahatchee Creek
- Peckerwood Creek
- Yellowleaf Creek
- Tallaseehatchee Creek (Coosa River tributary)
- Shirtee Creek
- Emauhee Creek
- Talladega Creek
- Kelly Creek (Coosa River tributary)
- Choccolocco Creek
- Cheaha Creek
- Kelly Creek (Cheaha Creek tributary)
- Cheaha Creek
- Cane Creek
- Ohatchee Creek
- Tallaseehatchee Creek (Ohatchee Creek tributary)
- Big Canoe Creek
- Big Wills Creek
- Terrapin Creek
- Hurricane Creek
- Nances Creek
- Little River
- East Fork Little River
- West Fork Little River
- Chattooga River
- Mills Creek
- Mortar Creek
- Tombigbee River
- West River
- Bates Creek
- Bilbo Creek
- Bassetts Creek (west side Tombigbee River tributary)
- Bassett Creek (east side Tombigbee River tributary)
- Jackson Creek
- Santa Bogue Creek
- Dry Creek
- Turkey Creek
- Okatuppa Creek
- Souwilpa Creek
- Puss Cuss Creek
- Big Tallawampa Creek
- Little Tallawampa Creek
- Bashi Creek
- Wahalak Creek
- Sucarbowa Creek
- Horse Creek
- Tuckabum Creek
- Yantley Creek
- Bogue Chitto
- Beaver Creek
- Kinterbish Creek
- Chickasaw Bogue
- Dry Creek
- Cotohaga Creek
- Sucarnoochee River
- Spring Creek
- Lost Creek
- Hall Creek
- Black Warrior River
- Big Prairie Creek
- Big Brush Creek
- Minter Creek
- Fivemile Creek
- Grant Creek
- Big Sandy Creek
- North River
- Hurricane Creek
- Davis Creek
- Blue Creek
- Big Yellow Creek
- Valley Creek
- Mud Creek
- Locust Fork
- Short Creek
- Village Creek
- Fivemile Creek
- Turkey Creek
- Gurley Creek
- Little Warrior River
- Blackburn Fork Little Warrior River
- Calvert Prong Little Warrior River
- Slab Creek
- Mulberry Fork
- Lost Creek
- Wolf Creek
- Indian Creek
- Cane Creek (Lost Creek tributary)
- Mill Creek
- Wolf Creek
- Cane Creek (Mulberry Fork)
- Blackwater Creek
- Sipsey Fork
- Ryan Creek
- Rock Creek
- Crooked Creek
- Blevens Creek
- Clear Creek
- Right Fork Clear Creek
- Brushy Creek
- Capsey Creek
- Rush Creek
- Caney Creek
- Borden Creek
- Broglen River
- Eightmile Creek
- Duck River
- Lost Creek
- Brush Creek
- Trussells Creek
- Noxubee River
- Bodka Creek
- Woodward Creek
- Sipsey River
- New River
- Little New River
- Lubbub Creek
- Bear Creek (Lubbub Creek tributary)
- Big Creek
- Luxapallila Creek
- Yellow Creek
- Buttahatchee River
- Bull Mountain Creek
- Gum Creek
- West River
- Spanish River
- Dog River
- Perch Creek
- Alligator Bayou
- Rabbit Creek
- Rattlesnake Bayou
- Halls Mill Creek
- Moore Creek
- Bolton Branch
- Eslava Creek
- Bolton Branch
- Robinson Bayou
- Middle Fork Deer River
- North Fork Deer River
- South Fork Deer River
- Fowl River
- East Fowl River
- West Fowl River
- Dykes Creek
Gulf Coast (west)
- Heron Bayou
- Bayou Sullivan
- Bayou Coden
- Bayou la Batre
- Little River
Pascagoula drainage basin
Tennessee drainage basin
- Pascagoula River (MS)
- Escatawpa River
- Bennett Creek
- Little Creek
- Pond Creek
- Escatawpa River
Mississippi River
- Mississippi River (LA, MS, TN, KY)
- Ohio River (KY)
- Tennessee River
- Bear Creek
- Buzzard Roost Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Little Bear Creek
- Second Creek
- Mulberry Creek
- Cane Creek
- Little Bear Creek
- Spring Creek
- Cypress Creek
- Shoal Creek
- Butler Creek
- Town Creek
- Mud Creek
- Bluewater Creek
- Big Nance Creek
- Clear Fork
- Muddy Fork
- Second Creek
- Elk River
- Anderson Creek
- Sugar Creek
- Sulphur Creek
- Big Creek
- Flint Creek
- West Flint Creek
- No Business Creek
- Limestone Creek
- Piney Creek
- Cotaco Creek
- Town Creek
- Indian Creek
- Huntsville Spring Branch
- Broglan Branch
- Huntsville Spring Branch
- Flint River
- Hurricane Creek (Flint River tributary)
- Brier Fork Flint River
- Mountain Fork
- Paint Rock River
- Hurricane Creek (Paint Rock River tributary)
- Estill Fork
- Big Spring Creek
- Short Creek
- Scarham Creek
- Town Creek
- South Sauty Creek
- Kirby Creek
- North Sauty Creek
- Blue Spring Creek (North Sauty Creek tributary)
- Mud Creek
- Robinson Creek (Mud Creek tributary)
- Coon Creek
- Crow Creek
- Big Coon Creek
- Widows Creek
- Long Island Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
- Jones Creek
- Lookout Creek
- Bear Creek
- Tennessee River
- Ohio River (KY)
